Do you believe in the afterlife...?

Question

Do you believe in the afterlife? Or... Do you think that once you die, everything and everyone you knew in your life is gone? Share your thoughts...

Answer 1

How do you reconcile the xth version of the afterlife with different, conflicting versions of other religions? I suppose you believe your religion is the only real, True Religion. Sure. Just like all the others do too.

Fact: the human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

Fact: the concepts of an afterlife, of gods, spirits, etc. have only been around for a few millenia.

Fact: these concepts were invented and promulgated by ignorant barbarians as an attempt to explain the world around them, before there was a such thing as science or epistemology.

Fact: the xth religion is only a couple millenia old, one of many religions that came before it and have come since.

Fact: most of the books of the bible were written by people who were never there, as second- or third-hand accounts decades or even centuries after the events they claim to tell about.

Fact: the books of the bible have been heavily edited over the centuries, with passages or even whole books being re-written or omitted to fit the theological and political climates of the time.

Fact: the books of the bible have also been subject to extensive errors, misinterpretations, and differences of opinion in interpretation as they are translated from one language to another and from that to yet another language.

Knowing all this, how can yours or ANY religion be viewed as anything BUT the invention of men? I know this may not be what you want to hear, and I doubt I'll do much harm to your faith; faith is remarkably impervious to reason.

Answer 2

a million. No, i'd not convert. i'm a sturdy believer in taking a stand antagonistic to injustice. If a Hell or a Hades existed, actual Heaven or actual Valhalla won't be able to exist. there is not any way all and assorted must be really satisfied for all eternity, if loved ones are burning or being tortured in different afterlives. If those places of torture exist, i believe we could continually ALL opt for to bypass to those places, to make a factor to the certain version of a god that invented those places. interior the pastime of destiny generations. So, I likely would not even warn all and assorted. 2. on condition that i'm an atheist, that situation would easily be very comforting. Eternity is an particularly, very lengthy time period. And life will change right into a lot extra significant if there is no longer an afterlife.

Answer 3

Hi. Yes i certainly do. I was brought up as a Catholic which has influenced my life regarding living on Earth for a short time and hopefully living forever in Heaven.

There are many times i question about God .Is he real? What i have been taught is sometimes hard to reason.I even stopped going to Mass for 25 years because it is only a ritual and i couldn't be bothered. I didn't loose my faith entirely but i put it in the back of my mind.

Even if you are not a religious person you can believe in a God. I think when i look around and see the beauty of things and the stars in the sky it just doesn't feel right to accept that all of this just"happened"and i am not using religion to justify this. I have put all preconceived thoughts away and looked on this from a new viewpoint.

I hope i have made some sense of this for you to understand what i am trying to say.

Cheers.

Answer 4

I believe in the afterlife. We all are already carrying a part of the afterlife in us. The soul for example.
I observe so often that the way our soul feels, either at peace, in harmony, in tune with its voice or in the opposite if someone pushes down this part of the afterlife and ignores this inner voice, I observe that this effects our material life as well also our own body.
So yes, I have no doubt that there is an afterlife.

Answer 5

To my way of thinking, there has to be an after life. I have seen very old people die, working in my profession as a nurse, and I have heard some say "Mother," or "My mother is calling me." So, I do believe our loved ones are waiting on the other side for us. This indicates to me that there must be an afterlife.

Answer 6

"Afterlife" contradicts itself. What comes AFTER LIFE, is simply death....or nothingness. So, do I believe in the word Afterlife?....no, it's an oxymoron of sorts.

I do believe in life. If your a logical, scientific person....then you must agree that "energy can never cease to exist". If your a Religious, Faith Based person....then you must agree that your an "Infinite Being, Created by an Infinite God".

So either way, guess what? Life & Consciousness are going no where :-). Enjoy the stay

Answer 7

I was raised to beleive in the afterlife in the Christian sense, butI no longer believe in the conventional heaven vs hell scenario. There is faith inside me that is not religious but spiritual which strongly feels that our spirits live on. That they soar into another journey. I have no basis for this belief, just blind faith. Maybe that's all I need...time will tell.

Answer 8

I did think this for many years, then this happend to me.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 9

Everything that has a beginning has an end, or, at least that's what I believe. I believe in the acquisition of knowledge through scrutiny of proven fact (not religion) , and all evidence i know of have pointed my to believe that neural activity ends at death, and therefore all thinking. Plus, it would totally suck if life just kept on going in a cycle of life and death, and you had to remember your possibly painful deaths.

Answer 10

i 100% believe in the afterlife...
this life, this world will end one day..this life will be destroyed when God say so...
then, the dead will be awaken back to be judge by God for a very long time because the people that will be judge are also include the first human on this world, Adam A.S...then we will be in Hell or Heaven based on our life today...that's mean that we have to be a good person n do good things to be in Heaven...but people who are not Muslim won't go to Heaven for ever...no matter how good are u...bad Muslim will go to Hell n after the punishment, they can go to Heaven...this is what my religion taught me...no offence k=)